Website Accessibility

In building and maintaining this website we have tried to ensure it is accessible and easy to use for everyone. For instance:

• we have tested the site to ensure it is compatible with a variety of different browsers and platforms.
• we have tested the site using a screen reader emulator (called Fangs) which creates a textual representation of a web page similar to how the page would be read by a modern screen reader.
• we have built the website to meet formal published web accessibility standards to AAA level compliance, and it has been tested using the W3C Mark-up validation service (http://validator.w3.org/).

When creating webpages we conduct the following checks:

• ensuring that navigation throughout the site works in a consistent way
• never using colour as the only way to convey important information
• using a standard web font to make it easy for all to read
• in most cases, the size of the font can be adjusted according to the users needs, using standard browser and operating system options
• using 'alt' tags on images

How to increase the size of text in your browser:

• With Internet Explorer go to View > Text Size. You can also use Tools > Internet options > Accessibility
• With Firefox go to View > Text Size > Increase Font, or use the keyboard shortcut by pressing Control and +.
• With Opera go to View > Preferences > Fonts then change Minimum Font Size
• With Safari go to Safari > Preferences > Advanced then select minimum font size to display
  
  

  How to listen to this website:

  
  

  Users who have their own screen reading software should find that it works sufficiently well on this website.

  If you don't have your own software, there are free services available to download which can be used to read this website aloud to you, under your control. Browsealoud is one such service – visit http://www.browsealoud.com/ for more information.